Author: ABC Columbia Staff

DHEC offers free testing during STD Awareness week

The Awareness week runs through April 17th

(ABC News) — April 11th through the 17th is National STD Awareness week. In recognition of that, the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)  is offering free screenings at its clinics across the state this Thursday. From 8:30am in the morning through 5pm in the afternoon, South Carolina residents can visit their local DHEC Health Department to be tested…

Duo accused of stealing from area church arrested

Columbia Police say the two are accused of stealing candlesticks from the church worth $2100 dollars

Image: CPD Columbia, SC (WOLO) — The Columbia Police Department has arrested two people of stealing valuable property from a place of worship. According to CPD,  55 year old Deborah Leslie and 57 year old Gary Nichols were located by Columbia Police in Lexington County Monday and taken into custody accused of Criminal Conspiracy and Grand Larceny. The pair is…

A new restaurant opens in Columbia in hopes of attracting ‘Greedy Rascals’

A new eatery is serving up some unique dishes in the Capital city

Columbia,SC (WOLO) —- A local restaurant is now open in Columbia. The owner Brandon Johnson says opening up in the middle of a pandemic left him facing plenty adversity. Still, he wasn’t going to let that stop him from serving up some unique dishes to bring full bellies and smiles to the people of Columbia.   Categories: Digital Exclusives and…

Some Facebook, Instagram users report outages with sites Thursday

According to 'Downdetector' thousands of users were unable to get onto the social media sites

Image: Facebook, Instagram logos Columbia, SC (WOLO) — It appears all is right with the world again, after thousands of Facebook and Instagram users say they scrambled to find out if they were the only ones having numerous problems accessing the social media sites. The company Downtracker, which is an online tracker that records website outages, says roughly 131,000 people…